CARE TWENTYONE CORPORATION
2373・Standard Market・Services
Governance
The Board of Directors consists of 6 members (including 2 outside directors, independent officers), and the company is a company with a Board of Corporate Auditors. It has introduced an executive officer system to separate management oversight from business execution. A Compensation Deliberation Committee (chaired by an outside director) has been established to ensure transparency in compensation decisions. During the fiscal year under review, the Board of Directors met a total of 17 times.
Risk Management
The Company has established a Risk Management Committee (chaired by the President and Representative Director, meeting four or more times per year) to manage a broad range of risks—including management, business operations, disasters, infectious diseases, and IT—under a total risk management framework. The Internal Audit Office (5 members) conducted on-site audits of 190 business offices during the fiscal year under review, and reported the results to the Board of Directors and the Board of Corporate Auditors. A BCP (Business Continuity Plan) has been established.
Shareholder Returns
The basic policy is to pay dividends twice a year. The annual dividend for FY2026 (ending October 2026) is planned at ¥17 per share (¥7 interim already paid, plus ¥10 year-end planned). 15,000 treasury shares (at ¥452 per share) were disposed of as restricted stock compensation for directors.
Dividend Policy
The basic policy is to pay dividends twice a year: an interim dividend (resolved by the Board of Directors) and a year-end dividend (resolved at the general shareholders' meeting). The actual result for FY2025 (ended October 2025) was an annual dividend of ¥17 (¥7 interim + ¥10 year-end). For FY2026 (ending October 2026), the ¥7 interim dividend has already been paid, and a ¥10 year-end dividend (annual total ¥17) is planned. Note that although the full-year earnings forecast has been revised from the forecast announced on December 12, 2025, there is no change to the dividend forecast.
ESG
While no dedicated sustainability basic policy or numerical targets have been established, the company is working on securing and developing personnel (Kurumin certification, abolition of the mandatory retirement age system, skill grading system), digitalization of operations through ICT utilization, and reduction of environmental impact through LED conversion and automatic air-conditioning control at all business locations. It discloses that the ratio of women in management positions is 63.2% and the male childcare leave utilization rate is 43.2%.
Last updated: January 28, 2026